0 to suggest, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true:
[ + (that) ] Are you insinuating (that) I'm losing my nerve?
What are you insinuating, Daniel?
1 to express but not directly state something:
What exactly are you insinuating?
[ + (that) clause ] She insinuated (that) I’m getting fat.
The textual unfixity of his bodily injury insinuates its lingeringly irregular character, even though his body has ostensibly healed.
Occasionally, other than 'purely' state-governed issues may insinuate themselves into the prescribed canon formation.
The affectation of this transgressive coloratura insinuates a common superficiality linking the traditionally alien genres of opera and techno-disco.
Over the next twelve years, the profound sectional polarity seizing the nation would insinuate itself into the basic structure of the congressional election season.
Or could this passage owe its strange, insinuating effect to, among other factors, the multiple associations to which its tonal trajectory is open?
This takes after the popular environmental slogan 'think globally, act locally' and insinuates the use of global trends in local environments.
And her triumph was fully justified: her voice is as pure as a diamond and her timbre sweet, insinuating yet powerful.
However, such an approach often incorporates a disparaging attitude towards the student's powers of discrimination, and certainly insinuates that personal preferences are trivial.
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